Next Book Group meeting will be January 16th, 2024, at 4 pm in the library.
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Reading Selection for discussion
at January Meeting: Caleb's Crossing by Gerladine Brooks 
The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.
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Janurary - July 2024 Reading List:
January Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks *Libby, Audio CD February Warmth of Other Suns by Isabella Wilkerson *Audio CD March The Sentence by Louise Erdrich *Libby, Audio CD April Jackie Cochran by Doris Rich *No Audio version available May Bel Canto by Ann Patchett *Libby, Audio CD June Walking with the Great Apes Sy Montgomery *No Audio version available July All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr *Libby, Audio CD * Titles with audio versions and where to find them. If you would like an Audio CD version, please ask to order it ahead of time. |